/mg/ - Minimalism General

This is a general for discussing software minimalism and minimal software.

>What is software minimalism?
en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Minimalism_(computing)

>Why software minimalism?
- Fewer bugs
- Better performance
- Lower memory footprint
- Better maintainability
- Higher scalability
- Longer software lifetime
- Smaller attack surface

>List of minimal OSes and distros
pastebin.com/XBTXuip5

>Useful links
suckless.org/rocks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers
github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/INITIATION.md (Guide to installing CRUX and Source Mage)

>Pastebins
Alternatives to Bloatware github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md
Pure ALSA pastebin.com/yKhgKt8r

Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something.

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Other urls found in this thread:

qodem.sourceforge.net/
damnsmalllinux.org/forums/index.php?topic=2.0
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

Good evening. Install Crux!

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>tfw you unintentionally created a Sup Forums meme

I installed source mage tho

Which of these three is the most /minimal/?
>ZFS
>BTRFS
>LVM+whatever FS

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ext4

OpenBSDs FFS

btrfs, zfs is a server file system you mong

minimalism is bloat

install cux

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>2017-07-09

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If you don't have ECC memory and a UPS, ext4 on LVM. Or maybe just DM-RAID if you don't plan to use snapshots.

NTFS

whatever is best for your use case

Minimal doesnt need to be featureless qodem.sourceforge.net/

So, we can surf the web with pictures in the terminal on links2...

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sixels are bloat tho

Damn Small Linux is back damnsmalllinux.org/forums/index.php?topic=2.0

not bad!

do any of you pale memers have a non-cancerous css i can use

this is what i use, something i put together a year or 2 ago.
ix.io/WUm

sorry for the late response, but thanks man

Is buying a thin client computer and using it as your main desktop /minimalist/ enough for you guys?

What is the best window manager?

Reminder to use Groff -mm/-ms unless you like bloat.

xterm

see

that isnt a window manager

theres no Tinfoil for twitter on f-droid

Why does alpine have no man pages?
What were they thinking?

afaik they have packages that are appended with -doc, which provide the manpages

I have it installed from there. Maybe you need to enable repositories.

The file manager here is called fsv or file system visualizer, also bump

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Threadly reminder decimal kilobytes and bibibytes instead of proper binary kilobytes are bloat
(1024 are good, 1000 are bad)

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Temple is the most minimalist
Try to help terry lower the lines of code

whats bibibyte senpai?

What about hardware minimalism? What's the minimal functional laptop with no bullshit?

Thinkpads?

a e s t h e t i c

I'm thinking possibly a reflashed ARM chromebook.
x86 is bloat.

isnt terry MIA :/

How do I make so image previews are displayed in ranger?
Terminal is urxvt. Distribution is gentoo.
The solution from ranger's official github doesn't work. I suppose w3mimgdisplay is the reason because w3mimgfb is masked but I don't know how to make sure this is the case.
Have you ever had similar problem? How can I fix it?

ranger is quite buggy when it comes to images.

f2fs

Post your OS and the ram usage when at start up. Your browser and usage when lurking.

>Debian
>Start:
132MB
>Browsing
478-526MB

Reminder that packages don't mean anything.

Lemme add that some OSes have what they call a basesystem which is a polite way to say they don't count a shitton of packages.

Reminder that nothing means anything

>Void
>Start:
37MB
>After starting dwm:
77MB
>Browsing (mostly-text site)
438MB
>Browsing (Starting jewtube video)
605MB
>Browsing (After jewtube video finished)
864MB

also, for better accuracy, use a command like free instead of screenfetch or htop.

Reminder to not bend backwards to.using new software because it's minimal. Consider what you need and workflow.

do you mean you will just pic that command that reports the lowest amount because it feels better for you ?

Why would you want to have an over-reported number from htop?

Hi I'm currently trying to install qutebrowser without dbus.
few observations so far:
>qutebrowser depends on qtwebengine (duh)
>qtwebengine uses the engine of chromium
>the chromium engine depends on dbus
>there are patches for chromium that will remove dbus related code
I could probably port this patches to qtwebengine.
Question:
Has anyone already done this?

>Being able to browse the internet while still under a gig of ram.
I'm never coming down from this high

You can also use qutebrowser with QtWebKit instead of QtWebEngine.h\

Also, Chromium already has an use_dbus build flag, so all you need to do is probably finding out how to unset that from QtWebEngine's build system.

>hardware dies
>software is bad now

This user gets it

I didn't know you could flash ARM Chromebooks. I'm using a flashed AMD64 Chromebook that I bought a few years ago specifically because no one had managed to install an OS on ARM seamlessly.

Not minimalist enough.

Did you copy the scope.sh config? It won't work in the most recent versions unless you have it. ranger --copy-config=scope

niga dis is the wey

I know you can do Libreboot on them. My concern though is whether you can get a more "traditional" install on an ARM one. I'm not an expert on coreboot and payloads, but I don't believe depthcharge allows you to do an install to the internal flash memory without a lot particulars and fucking around with it.

>minimalism thread
>no Forth

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>His programming style is thoughtful. He thinks about the problem a lot and writes very little code. He thinks it through again and rewrites the code. He objects to letting too much code accumulate from historic reasons and likes to rewrite. He is the most productive programmer I have ever seen yet he has only written about 15K of code in the last fifteen years. He has rewritten it a number of times. It is quite amazing and has almost no fat. The people who buy or sell six figure VLSI CAD software sometimes get very upset by his ideas of giving away his ideas and tools so that children could play a VLSI CAD game under OK on their workstation in a mouse and simulate and print state of the art chip designs.
Jeff Fox talking about Chuck Moore (inventor of Forth)

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FORTH is lower than C but higher than assembly

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OH HELL YEAH, MY MAN!

>Forth
>minimalism